Extend surefire to rerun failing tests

2014-06-24 Thread Qingzhou Luo
Hi, I am an intern at Google. The first step of my internship project is to add the ability to Maven to automatically rerun failing tests a few times, to see if they ever pass in any of the reruns. It is useful because in many cases a test fails because it is flaky, not because there is a bug in t

Re: Extend surefire to rerun failing tests

2014-05-28 Thread Qingzhou Luo
, May 28, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote: > > On May 27, 2014, at 1:14 PM, Qingzhou Luo wrote: > > Hi, > > I am an intern at Google. The first step of my internship project is to add > the ability to Maven to automatically rerun failing tests a few times, to > see

Extend surefire to rerun failing tests

2014-05-27 Thread Qingzhou Luo
Hi, I am an intern at Google. The first step of my internship project is to add the ability to Maven to automatically rerun failing tests a few times, to see if they ever pass in any of the reruns. It is useful because in many cases a test fails because it is flaky, not because there is a bug in t